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<\/a> <\/p>\nSince about high school, I\u2019ve always thought that if nothing else, I\u2019d make a good father. I know, pretty arrogant, right? It\u2019s because I love the idea of babies and of children and of being one of very few people that another human being trusts and learns from so completely. Also, I like to think I\u2019m kind and caring and patient and all that generic good stuff.<\/p>\n
That is, I thought I\u2019d be a good dad until we got cats. You\u2019re supposed to clean the litter box for cats every day and it\u2019s sometimes hard to believe just how much a cat can excrete. I don\u2019t clean it every day. Perhaps when we first got cats, we did so daily for a few weeks. Now, in Sims terms, I only clean it out when it starts affecting my environment \u2013 not, ideally, when it\u2019s affecting our cats\u2019 hygiene.<\/p>\n
Translated into baby terms, this means that I\u2019d let a baby sit in a stinky diaper for several days before changing it because the smell actually started to bother me. Now I know what you\u2019re saying: \u201cBabies and cats aren\u2019t the same!\u201d To which I reply: yes! You\u2019re right! Babies are even harder<\/strong> to take care of!<\/p>\n I have no doubt that if and when I have a child, I will love it more than I love our cats. Still, there\u2019s a nagging doubt that perhaps my behavior toward our cats is a harbinger. I can only imagine a scene where we have two kids: a big fat one that licks everything and a small crazy one that sprints around the house for no good reason. And we just sit there, taking pictures of them and chuckling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a small post-birthday celebratory day yesterday. Katie made me a delicious maple cake, and people came over and played Halo and Rock Band (3 and 2, to be precise). I also bought a beginner\u2019s acoustic guitar, then promptly proceeded to snap the first string by tuning it too tightly. Sigh. All in all, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20,12,19,21],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-baby","tag-birthday","tag-cat","tag-guitar","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}